Window-bead fastener



F. MILLER. Window Bead Fastener.

(ModeL) No. 238,798. Patented Ma rch 15, 1881.

q e' Z0 N4PEIERS. PHOTO-UYKOGRAPNFJ WA5HINGTON D O UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS MILLER, OF DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS.

WlNDOW-BEAD FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,798, dated March 15, 1881.

Application filed March 13, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANoIs MILLER, of Downers Grove, in the county of Du Page and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Stop Fastenings and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to devices intended to be applied to inside stops for windows for the purpose of facilitating their removal and replacement and of effecting their adjustment to and from the sash. fastening-pin secured to the stop by means of a plate and projecting on the under face of the stop to enter and engage an apertured plate secured to the frame, substantially as hereinafter more fully set fort-h and claimed.

Figure 1 represents a window-frame in position to show a stop provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 shows the cscutcheon in front view. Fig. 8 shows an escutcheon on its under side, intended tobe used with a turnpin,-and contrived to hold the turn-pin in place on the stop when the escutcheon is fast thereto.

Fig. 4 shows the fastening in place by trans verse section of the stop and window-frame.

A is the frame, B is the stop, and O is the sash.

F designates the fastening as a whole.

P in Figs. 3 and 4 is a turn-pin having an outer head, I, preferably projecting so as to be turned by the thumb and finger, and having the beveled clamping-head T at its inner end.

E is an escutcheon or plate, againstwhich the head I bears, and L is a plate fixed to the frame A and slotted to admit the head T, which, upon being turned, engages the plate L, as shown, and secures the stop, the frame being recessed beneath the plate L to receive the head T. The escutcheon E is preferably secured to the stop, and has a transverse slot admitting the head T, and also allowing of the horizontal adjustment of the stop toward or from the sash, the hole H in said stop, through which the pin passes, being large enough to allow of such movement.

It consists in a headed' When it is desired to adjust the stop the head Iof the pin P is turned enough to loosen the stop, when the latter is moved inward or outward to the position required and again secured by turning the pin P.

It is evident that the stop provided with this fastening may be readily removed and replaced with little skill, and that thereby all danger of marriug the stop is avoided.

For the purpose of holding the turn-pin P in place on the stop when detached, and thus avoiding its loss or misplaceinent, the loose piece D, having a slot to pass the head I, may be used beneath the escutcheon, being turned when the latter is secured, so that the slot of the plate D and that of the escutcheon will cross, as shown in Fig. 4. In this figure the escutcheon is recessed in its back face and the plate D is retained by one of the screws which fastens the escutcheon. The pin may be held by passing a short wire through the pin and turning the ends.

In the use of a fastenin g permitting the horizontal adjustment of the stop I also propose the division of the stop above the point reached by the bottom rail of the inner sash when lifted, and enough above the closed sash to allow the latter to be taken out by the removal of the lower or adjustable section of the stop only. Such a division is shown at a, Fig. 1. Then the upper section need never be disturbed. A suitable head or other finish at the break a will permit any ordinary adjustment of the lower half of the stop without offense to the eye, and the fastenings in that case to be handled are in convenient reach from the floor.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- In the window-stop fastening described, the fixed escutcheon E and the fastening-pin P,

combined with the plate D, whereby said pin is held from detachment from the stop when the stop is removed from the window, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS MILLER. Witnesses:

M. E. DAYTON, JEssE 002:, Jr. 

